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Title:Surveying the Greek Chora : The Black Sea Region in a Comparative Perspective
Series:(Black Sea Studies, Volume 4)
Author:Pia Guldager Bilde & Vladimir Stolba (eds)
ISBN:8779342388 : 9788779342385
Illustrations:b/w photos & maps
Format:Hardback
Size:170x240mm
Pages:346
Weight: .986 Kg.
Published:Aarhus University Press - September 2006
List Price: 26.95 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:ARCHAEOLOGY: Greece: Black Sea


This volume is the outcome of an international conference on landscape archaeology. It includes 15 contributions from participants from six different countries, who analyse the territories of the main ancient cities of the west, north and south coasts of the Black Sea region, discussing them also in a comparative, Mediterranean perspective. The particular aim of the conference was to join the forces of Eastern as well as Western researchers in establishing an overview of the relationship between the larger ancient cities and their territories. During the past 40 years this particular field of archaeology has developed into a highly specialised and sophisticated discipline. Based on a systematic sampling strategy, it aims at understanding regions beyond the individual site, frequently on a city-state, regional or landscape level. The methodological debate on this approach that is current in Mediterranean archaeology has, however, only had a limited impact so far on Black Sea region research, with most Western researchers still lacking a fundamental knowledge about Black Sea data and how they are generated.

Introduction; Issues in the Economic and Ecological Understanding of the Chora of the Classical Polis in its Social Context: A View from the Intensive Survey Tradition of the Greek Homeland; The More Unusual Dots on the Map: "Special-Purpose" Sites and the Texture of Landscape; Exploring Community in the Hinterland of a Black Sea Port; The Territories of Istros and Kallatis; The Chorai of the Ancient Cities in the Lower Dniester Area (6th century BC to 3rd century AD); The Rural Environs of Olbia: Some Problems of Current Importance; Die Chora des pontischen Olbia: Die Hauptetappen der räumlich-strukturellen Entwicklung; The Chora of Kerkinitis; The Chora of Tauric Chersonesos and the Cadastre of the 4th-2nd Century BC; Towards a Comparative Study of Chorni West and East: Metapontion and Chersonesos; Ancient Roads and Land Division in the Chorai of the European Bosporos and Chersonesos on the Evidence of Air Photographs, Mapping and Surface Surveys; Theodosia and its Chora in Antiquity; The Chora in the Bosporan Kingdom; The Chora of Nymphaion (6th century BC to 6th century AD); Archaeological Survey on the Lower Danube: Results and Perspectives.

"Overall, this is a highly successful volume, and the editors are to be commended for an interesting and worthwhile collection of articles, logically organized, and tightly edited. The contributions...are of great importance for the future of landscape archaeology. ...this book is an indispensable tool for students or scholars who wish to have a clear idea of the directions towards which modern archaeologists' and historians' scientific approaches are tending." -- Elias K. Petropoulos. BMCR, May, 2007.